Celebrating and Praising

We call it..."We have a need for some music" and then the kids get crazy :)
Doesn't Luke lead his partner well ?

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What are they celebrating ?

Happy 10th day of your birth Luke! Boy did we celebrate...Lunch out with Mom and Dad to Olive Garden. Home to play an afternoon of electronics. His chosen meal of chicken legs parmesian, buttered red potatos, green beans, and corn...followed by chocolate cake with chocolate icing...and presents and his choice of a movie...We also had a praise dance party :) We call it the need for some music. Then we turn on the music and let the fun begin.

We celebrated the first day of fall by

In case you were wondering what is on this pizza...it is fried squash with onions on a bbque/pizza sauce. We also added some ham. We made lots of diff. kinds tonite. Ranch and alfredo sauce with bacon or chicken and garlic.

 Eating pumpkin pie and make your own pizza. Tonite we are watching some Halloween movie with dogs- The Dog Who Saved Halloween. This day is actually the autumnal equinox. Do you know what that means ? We studied this and other terms related to the seasons . It marks the first day of autumn when the sun's rays are shining directly on the equator and we have the same amount of day light as we do darkness...In the most simplest of terms. There is a spring equinox in March ( first day of spring). The other 2 seasons are solstices ( winter and summer). Anyway this week I learned some new things. This is one of the things I love about home schooling. This is our 24th yr of home schooling and it amazes me what I end up learning every year...

It looks like a whole lot of standing around.....

 Last Sunday we had a deck building party at Keith's and Mary Kate's. Actually the older kids dug 7 holes for the footers of the deck. They called and had them inspected and got their second inspection after the concrete was poured in. It took a few hrs for them to dig and MK and I watched the little ones inside. Then Keith and MK treated us to McDonalds and donuts which we don't do to often....Stay tuned for our second deck bldg. party this wknd....and maybe next . Depending on how much they get done this wknd..

I know you see them all the time ....but

I can't help but post more. They truly love their pictures taken....funny I saw Lila and Selah dressed like this today. I asked them if I could take their pictures. As soon as Isaiah saw me taking the girls he wanted his too :) I told you all before they so want very long hair. This is how they do these blankets every day and wear their hair like this all day long....even when we go out. It just makes me smile when I see their sweetness....my oh my do I feel blessed to watch them every day and see how innocent and joyfilled they are.

Their attachment has been so easy and we can tell that they were loved back in Ghana. Which to us is a big strength of the Ghana adoption program. The mom's just can't take care of their children because of poverty....but these children have been loved. You can tell by how sensitive to one another they are and how loving to others they are.

One day they used a whole box of chalk

Do you think the kids are trying to butter us up some ( Hot mom and handsome dad )? One day they used a huge box of chalk up by drawing on our driveway....the next day it rained and washed it all away but they had fun creating .

Do you know why Andrew is so sleepy ?

 It is not because he is on any medicines...It is because he is up alot at nite :(  We moved him out of his pack and play because he was climbing in and out and destroying the room either way. We put him back in the pack and play because at least some of the time it contained him but last nite he must have fallen and cut his chin somehow so we moved him back to the mattress on the floor. His room is child proofed but he would find the handiwipes and pull them all out or the diapers would be scattered all over....We actually had our first evaluation of him in our home with a special ed. coordinator and pyschologist...this is how he was :) Sound asleep and not his usual active self. We have tried keeping him up but that does not help. He used to take melatonin when he first came home but that only helps you go to sleep . That is not his problem ...He won't stay asleep. So I talked with our pediatrician last week and next week we will see him for an evaluation on some medication to help him stay asleep all nite. Otherwise he is to tired during the day....

When he gets up he likes to play by banging on the wall or laughing so loud the girls above him can hear him. This is making it difficult to just ignore because it is keeping others up at nite too...I think he will have better days if he gets better sleep...So we are going to the next step with him.

Any suggestions or advice about sleep issues would be appreciated.